BitTorrent protocol encryption: Difference between revisions

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'''Protocol header encrypt''' ('''PHE'''), '''Message stream encryption''' ('''MSE''') or '''Protocol header encryption''' ('''PHE''') are features of some [[BitTorrent]] clients that attempts to make BitTorrent hard to throttle. Some [[Internet service provider|ISP]]s throttle BitTorrent traffic because it makes up a large porportion of total traffic and the ISPs don't want to spend money buying extra capacity. Instead, the ISPs spend money on hardware that look for BitTorrent traffic and slow them down.

==History==

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[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9517694&forum_id=40629]

[[µTorrent]] will implement Protocol header encryption in a later release. [http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=44229#p44229] Due to a lack of cooperation between the Azureus and µTorrent developers µTorrent willwas probablyplanning to use its own protocol. However, recent developments may mean they will colaborate on the protocol after all. [http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=45927#p45927]

==Operation==